Strong-coupling expansion for the Hubbard model in arbitrary dimension using slave bosons

Abstract

A strong-coupling expansion for the antiferromagnetic phase of the Hubbard model is derived in the framework of the slave-boson mean-field approximation. The expansion can be obtained in terms of moments of the density of states of freely hopping electrons on a lattice, which in turn are obtained for hypercubic lattices in arbitrary dimension. The expansion is given for the case of half-filling and for the energy up to fifth order in the ratio of hopping integral t over on-site interaction U, but can straightforwardly be generalized to the non-half-filled case and be extended to higher orders in t/U. For the energy the expansion is found to have an accuracy of better than 1% for U/t≥8. A comparison is given with an earlier perturbation expansion based on the linear-spin-wave approximation and with a similar expansion based on the Hartree-Fock approximation. The case of an infinite number of spatial dimensions is discussed. © 1996 The American Physical Society.